1000 Pieces of Bad News From South Africa. Steven Cohen makes Art from headline posters
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Kudu dance in corporate art space
Steven Cohen arrives at the official opening of the Marc Chagall exhibition at the Standard Bank Gallery with a stuffed kudu attached to his head and finds that it a heavy burden to impress at company dos.
Kudu dance in corporate art space
Steven Cohen arrives at the official opening of the Marc Chagall exhibition at the Standard Bank Gallery with a stuffed kudu attached to his head and finds that it a heavy burden to impress at company dos.
Elephant feet at Miss Glow Vaal
From lilly white Fashion Week in Sandton to a queer black drag competition in Sebokeng, Steven Cohen spends the week looking at frocks
Saying a prayer for Montpelier
Export quality white fags from South Africa, Cohen and Elu, restricted at the Dance Umbrella with a no-under-18s and billed at the end of a four-hour programme Steven Cohen prays to go to France
Choking on art
"What kind of shit are you causing?," "it was pathetic," "this is sensationalist work and I don't like that," "you won't see this in Europe" and "the arsehole is not a part of the body" said a horrible mouse in an art argument with Elu. Steven Cohen out on a limb
Stirring in 702 land
Listeners think he's just a naked, shit-dripping drag queen, but the queer diva discovers they think 'art is shit'. Steven Cohen surprises even himself, on the radio
Out in Africa
I actually feel like a white queer limping into the African Renaissance… with much foreboding. I expressed that in two works made this New Year in a traditional homestead in eSigangeni, Swaziland, my adopted other home with the family of my African granny Nomsa Dhlamini. [17/01/00]
Pissing on the "Troughman"
Steven Cohen at the Sydney Sleaze Ball marvells at the transgressing transgressive and is tempted to also let loose, but holds back and observes. [17/01/00]
Cohen meets Mother Abyss
"I'm merely admiring the fine embroidery ... not the organ," said Mother Abyss of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Steven Cohen reports queer stories from the Sydney Sleaze Ball last month. [17/01/00]
Homosutra
Steven Cohen goes down under to the Oz Sleaze Ball and finds, deep inside queer territory, the absence of poverty and violence. Swapping a real ghetto for a gay ghetto he discovers Sydney's worst crime is smoking a cigarette in public. [17/01/00]